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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 05, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Benedikt Geukes, Stuttgart, DE;

Matteo Michel, Chemnitz, DE;

Manfred Walz, Grömbach, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Automatic detection of clock grid misalignments and automatic realignment including loading a test pattern into a first storage element on a first clock grid on a circuit; scanning the test pattern from the first storage element on the first clock grid to a second storage element on a second clock grid on the circuit; reading the scanned test pattern from the second storage element on the second clock grid; evaluating the scanned test pattern for errors; and in response to detecting an error in the scanned test pattern, triggering an alignment of the first clock grid and the second clock grid.


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